My Apple Remote disables my screensaver, can I stop it?

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My Apple Remote disables my screensaver, can I stop it?

Hi All,

I have been running Tiger ever since I had my Mac (2007). I never needed to update till just recently. So I'm new to the now seemingly obsolete Snow Leopard. Anyways, I always used my screensaver with iTunes to listen to music and the remote never disabled the screensaver. Now with SL everytime I use the remote to adjust volume or skip songs it disables the screensaver. I'm hoping that there is some sort of function to disable this feature.

Thanks.

Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 29, 2014 3:17 PM

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Drew Reece

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Apr 2, 2014 4:41 PM in response to cstinett

Can you turn down the length of time that the screensaver takes to appear?

I use the Apple remote on iOS, that doesn't seem to wake the screen from the screensaver on 10.6.8 is that what you are referring to or is the small white/ aluminium Apple remote?

Does it make any difference if you set a corner to activate the screensaver & then leave your mouse in that corner? Hot corners are set in the screensaver section of System preferences.

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cstinett Author

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Apr 6, 2014 3:57 PM in response to Drew Reece

"Can you turn down the length of time that the screensaver takes to appear?"

Yes.

The small white remote.

"Does it make any difference if you set a corner to activate the screensaver & then leave your mouse in that corner?"

No.

Back in 10.4 I could use the keyboard play/pause and skip buttons and the volume control along with the remote keys without disabling the screensaver. With 10.6 I can only use the volume control on the keyboard without disabling it. Any other command disables the screensaver.

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FALcatkin

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Apr 7, 2014 10:23 AM in response to cstinett

Snow Leopard is not obsolete.

It is a great OS.

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